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History JavaScript

Battle of the Bulge

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. On this anniversary of the World War II Battle of the Bulge, Jules Crittenden provides a comprehensive summary of the battle, as well as a book and other references, and photos. The photos are especially compelling, as they lack of romanticism of so many WWII photos in books and in other […]

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Web

Shock, Awe, Economics, and the Web

Battered into a fetal ball by waves of bad economic news, only surfacing to watch an occasional crash and bash flick, such as Iron Man, I discovered my own personal bailout via Naomi Klein’s book, “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”. Oddly enough, it wasn’t something that Klein wrote (though she has many interesting points […]

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Graphics/CSS

Incorporating CSS3

With the growing support for CSS3 in most of the major browsers, including Firefox, Safari, Opera, and now Chrome, I decided to incorporate the use of CSS3 properties into my own site designs. In addition, I also used an SVG graphic whenever I wanted a background that sized with the page. The CSS3 properties I’m […]